Incumbent has comfortable lead in 33rd District in Fresno, Kings, Tulare counties
Incumbent Assemblymember Alexandra Macedo started the primary race with a commanding lead in the 33rd District that straddles Fresno, Kings and Tulare counties.
The Tulare Republican pulled down 64% of the vote as the initial results came in. Democratic challenger Hipolito Angel Cerros, the former mayor of Lindsay, had acquired 36% as the numbers became public after 8 p.m. Tuesday.
The Secretary of State’s Office reported 31,334 ballots cast in the initial tally. There are 219,592 registered voters in the district split among the three counties.
Macedo first won election in 2024 after the retirement of Republican Devon Mathis, who served a decade in office. A Portuguese-American, Macedo is a small business owner and attorney with roots in agriculture.
She had far out-raised her opponent in campaign contributions with $1.2 million as of May 29, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.
Cerros did not have any campaign contributions paperwork listed on the Secretary of State’s website.
After college, Macedo joined the family business with Macedo Engineering & Consulting Inc., which works with crop and dairy farmers for “environmental compliance assistance and consulting along with agricultural design and project management,” according to her website.
Cerros was the youngest-ever person elected to office in Lindsay in 2022, when his fellow council members voted him to be mayor at age 24. He had previously joined the Lindsay City Council in 2020 after graduating from UC Davis.
Lindsay has what’s commonly referred to as a weak mayor system, in which the mayor is not elected independently by voters but rather chosen by a vote among council members. Clovis, for example, uses that kind of system, which differs from the strong mayor system in Fresno.
The members of the council also voted to remove Cerros from the mayor’s role in 2024, according to reporting by the Sun Gazette. He previously pulled papers to run in the 33rd District but dropped out of the race that Macedo ultimately won.
This story was originally published June 2, 2026 at 9:08 PM.
